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So you can survive the trip but even if you come back home, it’s not home anymore? Imagine leaving 222 years ago and coming back now ...

by Swizec 7y ago

atoav 7y ago
Many european cities would still exist and the mountains I grew up in front of too. But granted, all people I know would be dead and some I could find in the history books maybe..
- yawz 7y ago
  > and some I could find in the history books maybe.. Where you would also be, at that stage.
bryanrasmussen 7y ago
When the French invade Fishguard, Wales in 1797 our hero Gruffyd Rhys Llewellyn goes to get help in the only place where help may be forthcoming. The Heavens! I should make a kickstarter, but I am already in my jammies.
t3f 7y ago
I would recommend reading Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter if you'd like to scratch that theoretical itch playing out one specific way.
peteretep 7y ago
I mean that sounds pretty awesome if you invested your funds well. I'd definitely be willing to be the first person who did that.
- Swizec 7y ago
  Where can you invest that would still recognize those funds as yours after 222 years?
  - jackvalentine 7y ago
    You'd have to form some kind of trust, the "Swizec is in space for 200 years trust" to handle your investments for you with a constitution that lays out how long it is expected for you to be gone. You might come back to discover that after several generations without oversight your trust has invested in bombing children and enriching the fund managers. I dunno.
    - Swizec 7y ago
      You still get in trouble I think. Have any political regimes been stable enough in the past 222 yaers for the trust to survive? All of Europe has gone through multiple revolutions, USA was only 30 years old back then so you wouldn’t have considered it ... that leaves what, the UK? Any parts of Asia that survived since 1797?
      - jaco8 7y ago
        With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this other ship overtaking yours with ease.
        Swizec 7y ago
        Going down in history as "First to leave, last to arrive". Brutal
      - jackvalentine 7y ago
        The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and there is a fairly direct lineage of laws from there to modern-day Australia, and going backwards also a direct lineage of laws in Britain. Nothing is risk-free, diversify! The likeliest outcome aside from coming back to nothing is you come back to an institution that is nothing like what it started.
  - archgoon 7y ago
    It's been done actually. Ben Franklin established a trust that lasted over two hundred years by design. https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/franklin-templeton/investing-in-the-future-200-years-in-the-past.html https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/franklin-templeton/investin...
tracker1 7y ago
I'd like a pint of mead and a stout woman! /s

So you can survive the trip but even if you come back home, it’s not home anymore? Imagine leaving 222 years ago and coming back now ...

by Swizec 7y ago

So you can survive the trip but even if you come back home, it’s not home anymore? Imagine leaving 222 years ago and coming back now ...

atoav 7y ago

Many european cities would still exist and the mountains I grew up in front of too. But granted, all people I know would be dead and some I could find in the history books maybe..

yawz 7y ago
> and some I could find in the history books maybe.. Where you would also be, at that stage.

bryanrasmussen 7y ago

When the French invade Fishguard, Wales in 1797 our hero Gruffyd Rhys Llewellyn goes to get help in the only place where help may be forthcoming. The Heavens! I should make a kickstarter, but I am already in my jammies.

t3f 7y ago

I would recommend reading Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter if you'd like to scratch that theoretical itch playing out one specific way.

peteretep 7y ago

I mean that sounds pretty awesome if you invested your funds well. I'd definitely be willing to be the first person who did that.

Swizec 7y ago
Where can you invest that would still recognize those funds as yours after 222 years?
- jackvalentine 7y ago
  You'd have to form some kind of trust, the "Swizec is in space for 200 years trust" to handle your investments for you with a constitution that lays out how long it is expected for you to be gone. You might come back to discover that after several generations without oversight your trust has invested in bombing children and enriching the fund managers. I dunno.
  - Swizec 7y ago
    You still get in trouble I think. Have any political regimes been stable enough in the past 222 yaers for the trust to survive? All of Europe has gone through multiple revolutions, USA was only 30 years old back then so you wouldn’t have considered it ... that leaves what, the UK? Any parts of Asia that survived since 1797?
    - jaco8 7y ago
      With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this other ship overtaking yours with ease.
      - Swizec 7y ago
        Going down in history as "First to leave, last to arrive". Brutal
    - jackvalentine 7y ago
      The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and there is a fairly direct lineage of laws from there to modern-day Australia, and going backwards also a direct lineage of laws in Britain. Nothing is risk-free, diversify! The likeliest outcome aside from coming back to nothing is you come back to an institution that is nothing like what it started.
- archgoon 7y ago
  It's been done actually. Ben Franklin established a trust that lasted over two hundred years by design. https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/franklin-templeton/investing-in-the-future-200-years-in-the-past.html https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/franklin-templeton/investin...

tracker1 7y ago

I'd like a pint of mead and a stout woman! /s